European PC Sales Climbed 20%
In Period Amid Internet Growth

a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter

Updated Aug. 6, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

LONDON -- European personal-computer sales grew 20% in the second quarter, driven by corporate reshufflings and growth in Internet use, according to Dataquest, a market-research unit of Gartner Group Inc.

However, consumer sales were anemic overall, mainly because of a 5.5% decline in home sales in Germany, which accounts for almost a third of the continent's consumer PC market. Dataquest said the drop was because of the spectacular...